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 Pauline Rook ARPS LMPA




A life long passion for monochrome photography led to Pauline wanting to study further in order to take the emotive pictures of the countryside and its people that she could see around her.

She undertook and completed a 5 year long part-time Distinctions Course in Applied Photography under the guidance of Ron Frampton FRPS. This led to her obtaining her Associateship of the Royal Photographic Society and subsequently the professional qualification of Licentiateship of the Master Photographers Association.

Her special skills are in the production of the fine monochrome print with attention to detail at every stage from the initial taking to the many hours spent in a traditional darkroom producing the perfect print.

Pauline has now embraced digital technology with all the advantages it can bring. Only selected work is now printed in the darkroom. Film and digital work sucessfully alongside each other with the use of scanners.

Pauline's work has been widely published in local and national publications. She has held many exhibitions that have been very well received. Her prints are now held in an increasing number of private and public collections.

Somerset Art Week - September 2006
SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Our Part of the Country - Mulchelney - April - July 2007
Somerset Art Week - September 2006
Working on the Land, Octagon, Yeovil - Sept 2005
Working on the Land, Brewhouse, Taunton - May-June 2005
Somerset Arts Week, Lopen - Sept 2004
Coldharbour Mill, Uffculme - Blackdown Hills photographs, March - April 2003
Buckland St Mary - Blackdown Hills, March 2003
Somerset Arts Week, Lopen - Sept 2002
Washford Mill, Watchet - Somerset Photographs, Oct 2001
Musgrove Park Hospital - Somerset Working Women, Sept 2001
The Smokery, Hambridge - Somerset Working Women, May 2001
Ilminster Meeting House - Somerset Working Women, March 2001
Somerset Arts Week, Lopen - Somerset Now, 2000

Taunton County Museum - July/Aug 2000
Bridgwater Arts Centre - Bridgwater 800, June 2000

Somerset Arts Week, Lopen - Sept 1998
Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton - Jan 1998
Cannington College, Bridgwater - A Year in the Life, Oct 1997
Royal Agricultural Show, Stonleight - Lives on Earth, July 1997
Bath & West Show - Lives on Earth, June 1996


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
The Town Mill Gallery, Lyme Regis - 'Shadows in Time', July - August 2002
The Town Mill Gallery, Lyme Regis - 'A Sense of Place', June 2002
Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton
- 'Beyond the Hills', May 1999
Byram Gallery, Taunton - 'Eight Women Photographers, July 1998
Royal Photographic Society, Bath - 'The Best of Monochrome'
Byram Gallery, Taunton - 'Fifty Photographers', July 96

MAGAZINES & NEWSPAPERS
Country Life · Country Living · Farmers Weekly · The Big Issue · The Photographic Journal · Somerset Magazine (monthly for two years) · Proof · Yachts and Yachting · Country Women USA · Western Gazette · Lyme Regis News · Marshwood Vale · Somerset County Gazette

BOOKS

Bridgwater, The Parrett's Mouth
2000 · published by Agre Books

 
Working Women of Somerset
2001 · published by Agre Books

 

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Lopen
Somerset
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Copyright © 2007 photographs Pauline Rook